Crouched alone on the floor, in a tiny, windowless cell, Nasim could hear what sounded like other prisoners being tortured. The guard would bang on the door and say: "Can you hear that beating?
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
In 1947, a struggling Hollywood film — an Oscar nominee for best picture despite ... as well as a focal point of books and films centered on dire prison conditions. Hawkins approached the ...